Michael Garrow
Chief Investment Officer, Chairman of the Investment Committee and Co-Founder, HS Group
Mike has extensive experience in hedge fund seeding, direct co-investments, portfolio management, and capital markets, primarily focused on Asia.
Prior to founding HS, Mike led Blackstone’s Asian hedge fund program and invested on behalf of Blackstone Strategic Alliance Funds, based in Hong Kong and New York. In addition to sourcing, diligencing, and monitoring seed investments, he led the creation of Blackstone’s emerging manager program and had primary responsibility for sourcing co-investment opportunities in Asia.
Previously Mike was a member of the investment team at SAIL Advisors, a Hong Kong based family office. Mike started his career at Morgan Stanley in New York and moved to its Global Capital Markets team in Hong Kong in 2002 as a member of its Greater China group.
Scott Gaynor
Partner and Chief Operating Officer, Myriad Asset Management
Scott is the Chief Operating Officer for Myriad Asset Management. Prior to joining Myriad in 2011, Scott was the Pan-Asian Chief Operating Officer, Managing Director and Equity Risk Manager of Morgan Stanley Asia. Joining Morgan Stanley in Financial Control based in New York in 1986, Scott was then based in Tokyo from 1988 to 1992 as a trading and project specialist. Following this, Scott was in New York from 1992 to 1997 managing the New Markets business during which time he was directly involved in the set-up of offices in Brazil, India and South Korea. From 1997 to 2002, Scott was in London as Equity Market Risk and Non-Market Risk Manager. From 2002 to 2011, Scott returned to Asia with Morgan Stanley, first as the Equity Division Pan Asia Risk Manager, COO of the Institutional Equity Division and finally the COO of all of Morgan Stanley Asia.
Scott graduated cum laude at the University of North Carolina Charlotte with a B.A. in Business Administration, and holds an MBA from the American Graduate School of International Management.
Richard Johnston
Managing Director, Albourne Partners (Asia) Limited
Richard joined Albourne in September 2004 to set up and head their Asian region providing both research on Asian based managers and consulting services to investors. Albourne Partners Limited is a leading UK based independent hedge fund, private equity, real assets and real estate advisory firm representing over 250 clients with an estimated $400bn allocated to alternatives. Albourne Partners Limited was established in 1994 and has 303 employees in 12 countries.
Richard spent the previous eleven years with UBS AG in Hong Kong and Singapore, in various senior positions managing equity proprietary trading, convertible bonds and prime brokerage in the region. Prior to this, he was with Baring Securities in London and Tokyo, specialising in arbitrage trading and risk management.
Richard graduated in Computer Science from Manchester University, UK in 1981 and was admitted as a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales in 1984.
Matt Pecot
Managing Director, Head of Prime Services, Asia Pacific, Credit Suisse
Matt is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Asia Pacific division, based in Hong Kong. He is Head of Prime Services Asia Pacific, which encompasses Prime Brokerage, Equity Swap, Delta One, Securities Lending and Futures. He also serves as the Head of Equities Distribution Asia Pacific, leading the client-facing sales teams which sell Asia Pacific product across Derivatives, Cash/Research, and Prime Services. Matt served as a member on the Managing Director Evaluation Committee (MDEC) during 2010 and as a Co-Chair during 2013 to 2016.
Matt joined Credit Suisse from UBS in 2009, where he held the following senior positions: Head of Americas Prime Brokerage (2007 – 2009), Head of Asia Pacific Prime Services (2004 – 2007), Head of Asian Equity Sales (2002 – 2004), Deputy Head of Asian Equity Sales (2001 – 2002) and Head of Indonesia and Philippine Equity Research (1999 – 2000).
Matt holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in Operations Research from the Air Force Institute of Technology. Matt was a US Army Officer (1983 – 1993) with the Corps of Engineers and Special Forces (Green Berets).
Amy Flikerski
Senior Portfolio Manager, External Portfolio Management, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB)
Amy is a Senior Portfolio Manager in External Portfolio Management based in Hong Kong. Since joining CPPIB in 2012, she has been involved in portfolio management, primarily focused on global equity strategies.
Amy's experience with hedge funds includes working as a Senior Analyst at Highbridge Capital Management and subsequently Talpion Fund Management. She was involved in hedge fund manager evaluation, selection and research as an Associate at PAAMCO, a global fund of hedge funds manager.
In addition, Amy possesses experiences at Moon Capital Management, a long/short equity fund, and JGP Gestão de Recursos, a Rio de Janeiro-based macro fund. She began her career as a Senior Associate in the High Yield group at Moody's Investors Service.
Amy holds an AB in Economics from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
